Dartmouth Authors

Charles E. Stege '33 ("Charles Staygay,") For the Occasional Speaker: Jokes with aPoint. CES Associates, 1981. 78 pp. Some of the jokes are new (Woody Allen: "I don't mind dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens"). Some are not so new ("Committee: a group of the unable who have been asked by the unwilling to do the unnecessary"). But they are all here, classified according to subject and occasion: openers, definitions, politician jokes, short quips and phrases, wind-ups, banker jokes, wife jokes, lawyer jokes, interchangeables. The author claims no pride of authorship; they "were all plagiarized," he happily admits, "mostly from other speakers at banquets, conventions, seminars."

Elmer B. Fulton '34, Maritime Poems ofWorld War 11. Carlton Press, 1981. 48 pp. A collection of poems written while Fulton was serving as a Navy gunnery officer aboard merchant ships during World War II. For readers for whom that war was a real-life experience instead of just a chapter in a history book these poems will jolt longdormant memories into life: U-boats playing their deadly cat-and-mouse game with convoys across the face of the North Atlantic; the sinking of the Scharnhorst; convoys lumbering across the violent Arctic Sea on the Murmansk run. Poems are not about events; they are about the emotions evoked by events, in this case by war at sea: fear, loneliness, exultation, terror, anger, patriotism. "Maritime" poems, to be sure; but primarily war poems.

Robert W. Rodman '34, MassachusettsMethods of Practice, 3rd ed. 3 vols. West Publishing, 1981. Designed for Massachusetts attorneys, the three volumes are divided into seven parts: real-estate transactions; landlord and tenant; business organizations; family law and practice; estate planning and probate administration; special actions, proceedings, and forms; and bankruptcy. Checklists and other special practice aids are included.

Joseph W. Bishop Jr. '36, The Law ofCorporate Officers and Directors: Indemnificationand Insurance. Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1981. 415 pp. A book designed to guide corporate officers and their legal counsel in developing effective safeguards against derivative or class-action suits brought against them in their capacity as fiduciaries. It explains and analyzes the law on such questions as the distinction between risks incurred by an executive in his official as opposed to his personal capacity, the nature of business risk, the defense of management by the corporation, and federal law affecting indemnification and insurance. The book will be kept current by cumulative annual supplements. Bishop is Richard Ely Professor of Law at Yale.

Edwin Drechsel '36, The PaquebotMarks of Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden and The Paquebot Marksof Africa, the Mediterranean Countries andtheir Islands, Robson Lowe Ltd., 1978 and 1981 respectively. Of interest to philatelists, these two publications are the initial parts of Drechsel's projected Paquebot Catalog ofthe World. Letters posted on ships at sea are customarily stamped "Paquebot," "Navire," or "Posted at Sea" by the post office at the port of call from which the letters are eventually mailed. Drechsel's aim is to issue a complete catalogue of all such ship-mail arrival postmarks.

John W. Powell '4O, Campus Security andLaw Enforcement. Butterworth, 1981. 334 pp. Designed for campus security officers and university administrators, Powell',s book traces the history of campus security from the days of the old-fashioned "campus cop" to the modern professional public safety officer who must deal with the various kinds of security problems unique to college campuses. He examines such subjects as the role of security organizations in an educational institution, the structure and operation of a campus security department, and such special problems of colleges and universities as crowd control. Former F.8.1, special agent and director of security at Yale from 1960 to 1968, Powell now heads a consulting firm specializing in campus security programs.

Lawrence DiStasi '5B, Mai Occbio: TheUnderside of Vision. North Point Press, 1981. 159 pp. DiStasi begins his analysis of the phenomenon of mal occhio, or evil eye, on the level of simple superstition as he recalls the folklore and ritual which surrounded it in his own Italian-American family, but he quickly expands the scope of his inquiry to many of the more abstruse concepts of myth and symbol, adducing his evidence from sources as varied as Greek and Roman mythology, Zen Buddhism, modern anthropology and ethnology, Freud, Jung, and Jakob Boehme.

Dave Harrison '60, Sports IllustratedCanoeing. Harper and Row. 1981. 190 pp. David and Judy Harrison, Canoe Trippingwith Kids. Stephen Greene Press, 1981. 204 pp. A new addition to the authoritative Sports Illustrated Library on sports, Harrison's first book covers the field from bow to stern: how to choose a canoe, care for it, transport it, and paddle it; skills for quiet water, moving water, fast water, and white water; safety measures and first aid; canoe tripping and expeditions; and the rapidly growing sport of competitive canoeing. The second book, written with his wife Judy, has more limited aims. Half practical manual and half panegyric to wilderness togetherness, it answers "the questions we have most often been asked on canoe camping with children." The nub of the Harrisons' advice: plan your trip right down to the smallest detail.

Donn A. Tenney '64, Breaking Groundby Breaking Rules: Collected Stories. Vantage Press, 1981. 77 pp. A collection of five short stories exploring a common modern theme: alienation. His stories, Tenney tells us, "are about people who break rules." When modern society, these stories suggest, denies individuals the opportunity to love "to respond to the consciousness of someone else," in Tenney's phrase then "people break ground by doing something unusual, by breaking rules. It is when other people respond in a favorable manner that broken rules lead to broken ground, to progress."

Norman Doenges, professor of classics, The Letters of Themistokles. Arno Press, 1981. 487 pp. The Greek text and Doenges' translation of an epistolary novel written about the Athenian general and statesman Themistokles. Though Themistokles lived in the fifth century 8.C., the novel was probably not composed until the end of the first century A.D. In addition to the translation Doenges also includes essays on earlier texts and editions, on the literary and historical importance of the letters, and on the historical personages who figure in them.